Flight Controls Engineer
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UAS flight-controls engineer integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting unmanned aircraft systems. Supporting DMR Technologies’ American drone development from prototype through production and flight testing.
Responsibilities:
- Integrate, configure, test, and troubleshoot UAS flight-control systems
- Support flight-controller setup, parameter configuration, tuning, and validation
- Diagnose aircraft stability, control, navigation, communication, and flight-performance issues
- Analyze flight logs, telemetry, sensor data, and aircraft behavior to identify root causes
- Integrate flight controllers with GPS/GNSS, IMUs, magnetometers, barometers, ESCs, motors, telemetry, communications systems, and other aircraft components
- Develop and execute bench, ground, and flight-testing procedures
- Validate new aircraft configurations, components, firmware releases, and flight-control changes
- Support development and testing of failsafes, flight modes, autonomous functionality, and other flight-control features
- Troubleshoot complex aircraft issues across firmware, avionics, electrical hardware, propulsion, sensors, and communications
- Work with engineering, production, and operations teams to move new aircraft and system improvements from development into production
- Provide engineering-level support for flight-control issues identified during production or field operations
- Document aircraft configurations, parameters, test results, technical issues, and corrective actions
- Analyze flight data at a computer, troubleshoot aircraft on the bench, and participate in flight testing in the field
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with UAS or autonomous aircraft flight-control systems
- Experience configuring, integrating, tuning, developing, or troubleshooting flight controllers
- Understanding of aircraft stability, control, navigation, sensors, and flight-control architecture
- Experience analyzing flight logs, telemetry, or other flight-test data
- Experience integrating flight controllers with aircraft sensors, propulsion systems, communications, and other onboard systems
- Strong technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
- Ability and willingness to work directly with aircraft during bench testing, ground testing, and flight testing
- Experience in one or more hardware/avionics areas, including flight-control electronics, avionics integration, electrical systems, sensors, GPS/GNSS, communications, telemetry, ESCs, motors, propulsion systems, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, wiring, harnesses, connectors, PCBs, schematics, electronics prototyping, or component-level troubleshooting
- Experience in one or more firmware/software areas, including embedded firmware development, C/C++, flight-control or autopilot software, PX4, ArduPilot, flight-control algorithms, control loops, autonomous functionality, firmware debugging, validation, or Git
- Strong flight-control experience with depth in either hardware/avionics or firmware/software
- Experience with multirotor, fixed-wing, VTOL, or other unmanned aircraft is preferred
- Experience taking a UAS from prototype through flight testing and production is preferred
- Flight-controller tuning and aircraft performance optimization experience is preferred
- Autonomous flight, mission planning, or navigation systems experience is preferred
- Experience developing or validating flight-critical features and failsafes is preferred
- Experience supporting UAS manufacturing or field operations is preferred
- FAA Part 107 certification or willingness to obtain certification
Benefits:
- Possible compensation premium for people willing to be in Louisiana
- Potential stock options for the right person
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